TSK · Acts 5:31

Then you spoke through a vision to your faithful followers and said:“I have placed a young hero over a warrior; I have raised up a young man from the people.

A psalm of David. Here is the LORD’s proclamation to my lord:“Sit down at my right hand until I make your enemies your footstool!”

For I am the LORD your God, the Holy One of Israel, your deliverer. I have handed over Egypt as a ransom price, Ethiopia and Seba in place of you.

Tell me! Present the evidence! Let them consult with one another! Who predicted this in the past? Who announced it beforehand? Was it not I, the LORD? I have no peer, there is no God but me, a God who vindicates and delivers; there is none but me.

“Indeed, a time is coming,” says the LORD,“when I will make a new covenant with the people of Israel and Judah.

I, the LORD, will be their God, and my servant David will be prince among them; I, the LORD, have spoken!

They will live in the land I gave to my servant Jacob, in which your fathers lived; they will live in it– they and their children and their grandchildren forever. David my servant will be prince over them forever.

However, I will first tell you what is written in a dependable book.(There is no one who strengthens me against these princes, except Michael your prince.

She will give birth to a son and you will name him Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.”

But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins,”– he said to the paralytic–

Today your Savior is born in the city of David. He is Christ the Lord.

So Jesus said to them again,“Peace be with you. Just as the Father has sent me, I also send you.”

Therefore let all the house of Israel know beyond a doubt that God has made this Jesus whom you crucified both Lord and Christ.”

You killed the Originator of life, whom God raised from the dead. To this fact we are witnesses!

God raised up his servant and sent him first to you, to bless you by turning each one of you from your iniquities.”

When they heard this, they ceased their objections and praised God, saying,“So then, God has granted the repentance that leads to life even to the Gentiles.”

Therefore let it be known to you, brothers, that through this one forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you,

If you forgive anyone for anything, I also forgive him– for indeed what I have forgiven(if I have forgiven anything) I did so for you in the presence of Christ,

This power he exercised in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms

But our citizenship is in heaven– and we also eagerly await a savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ,

correcting opponents with gentleness. Perhaps God will grant them repentance and then knowledge of the truth

not pilfering, but showing all good faith, in order to bring credit to the teaching of God our Savior in everything.

But“when the kindness of God our Savior and his love for mankind appeared,

keeping our eyes fixed on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the joy set out for him he endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

¶ Salutation From Simeon Peter, a slave and apostle of Jesus Christ, to those who through the righteousness of our God and Savior, Jesus Christ, have been granted a faith just as precious as ours.

For if after they have escaped the filthy things of the world through the rich knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they again get entangled in them and succumb to them, their last state has become worse for them than their first.

And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son to be the Savior of the world.

and from Jesus Christ– the faithful witness, the firstborn from among the dead, the ruler over the kings of the earth. To the one who loves us and has set us free from our sins at the cost of his own blood